Working with voices!! Victim to victor: Evaluation of a Mentored Self-Help Intervention for the Management of Psychotic Symptoms
Last updated 11/06/2007
This pilot study explores a low-cost, mentored self-help intervention for auditory hallucinations in a community mental health setting. The intervention involves a mentor’s supportive assistance with written assignments exploring individual voice-hearers’ experiences of auditory hallucinations (Coleman & Smith, 1997; Hustig & Hafner, 1990). It focuses on assignments operationalized in a published workbook, co-authored by a former psychiatric patient and a psychiatric nurse (Coleman & Smith, 1997). Study participants completed the workbook, rather than attending a specific number and duration of treatment sessions. Participants were adults diagnosed with a severe and persistent mood or psychotic disorder experiencing medication-resistant psychotic symptoms.
Results show statistically significant improvement in the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) factor Anxious Depression for Intervention group participants, over those in the Comparison group.
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For more information about the workbook
Working with Voices - Victim to Victor, 2nd Edition
by Ron Coleman & Mike Smith. P&P Press Limited, 2006.